Chaise longue



y 26, 1949- I w. w. VlNCENT,-JR 2,477,155

CHAISE LONGUE Filed Dec. 12, 1946 INVENTOR.

Patented July 26, 1 949 NITE CHAISE LONGUEI William W. Vincent, Jr., Keiit awia; assignor to The Vincent-McCall Company, Kenosha Wis., acorporation of Wisconsin e i Application December 12, 946, SeijiaI No VlSJfhI V One-of the main and paramount objects of the present invention is to provide a chaise-longue or similar or analogous structure which is of simple and inexpensive construction whereby it can be manufactured and sold at a relatively small price and yet will possess functional properties which afford it convenience of adjustment and appropriate resilient characteristics to supply com fortand satisfactory service for the occupant.

To the: attainment of the foregoing and other designs and purposes of theinventiomapresent preferred-embodiment thereof has been-developed and to enable those acquainted with this line of furniture industry and others to understand the same and the advantages and benefits resulting from its employment, in the accompanying drawing such appliance has been portrayed in detail, and in the following specification its various features and improvements have been fully described.

In this drawing- Figure 1 pictures the chaise-longue, including its seat and back cushions, in perspective, both sides of the structure being alike, but which duplex feature has not been fully depicted since it apparently is unnecessary to do so;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary, perspective view of the rear portion of the appliance on a larger scale; and

Figure 3 is a small cross-section on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Referring to the several views presented in this drawing, it will be observed that the main-frame of the structure includes horizontal, U-shaped angle-bars forming the integral, parallel sidemembers II, II and the intermediate front-bar l2, such frame having hinged thereto near its forward portion a supplemental, supportingframe I3 resting on the floor or ground and foldable upwardly to frame H, H, l2 when the appliance is to be stored away in as small a space as possible.

At its back end, at [4, each such frame sidemember II has hinged thereto, at a point intermediate its length, a curved angle-bar 15, such pair of transversely registered parts 15, i5 being cross-connected together rigidly by a horizontal bar It riveted thereto at 2|], 20 and equipped with strengthening and stiffening brace-bars I1, I! riveted or otherwise connected at I8, I8 to bar 16 and at l9, iii to the corresponding bars l5, l5.

The inverted U-shaped, adjustable, angle-bar frame 2| for the back of the chaise-longue and its cushion has its two lower ends hinged in alignment at 22, 22 to the parts H, H of the mainioiaims. (01. 155 112) jecting; end "parts of such bar'sbeing "with appropriate arm-rests29, 29,

the lower rear end-portions of the bars l5, l5, support a transverse axle 3 l -equipped with carryframathe two upstanding portionsof such back 'frame 2 [having mounted thereon a pair .of transversely-registered; outstanding pins or studs 23,

"23' occupying a pair of corresponding'notches 26,

26 of two sets of such recesses, 25, 26, 21 and 28in the lower edge of" the,intermediate curved portions, of the barslE, I5, the forwardly proequipped As is apparent from an inspectionof Figure 1 ing-wheels 32, of which only one is shown in the drawings.

The main body of the construction is provided with a resilient supporting-means, of which only one spring 9, is illustrated, on which is mounted the customary seat cushion 33 and the backframe, similarly fitted with resilient means, of which a few springs 8, 8 are shown, supports the back cushion 34.

It will be obvious that it is the cooperation of the rockingly-mounted back-frame 2| with the hinged arm-rest bars l5, l5 through the cooperation of the pins or studs 23, 23 with the open-end slots or notches 24 to 28 inclusive that releasably holds or looks the back and its cushion in the desired degree of elevation for the comfort of the occupant, and that to change the angular position of such back, it is merely necessary to have such pins occupy a different pair of notches.

It may be noticed that the top of each such plurality of notches is substantially at such an angle that, if it is desired to rock the back upwardly to a different position, this can be accomplished by so doing, the pins 23 sliding out of their then occupied notches and traveling along the under surfaces or lower edges of the arm-rest angle-bars 15, I5 to the next pair of notches which they may enter and hold the back in a, new position, or, if the back is pulled or pushed up still further, they will pass out of that pair of notches and proceed to the next pair, and so on.

If, however, it is desired to lower the back it may be rocked upwardly enough to free its pins from the notches which they then occupy, whereupon by holding the united arm-rest bars l5 at a sufficiently elevated position the back can be rocked down until it registers with the desired lower pair of notches and then the arm-rest bars lowered to cause the pins to enter the new recesses and hold the back in the desired new depressed position.

Or the same result can be obtained by standing at the rear of the chaise longue and lifting directly upward on the back (not rocking it). The wheels will remain on the floor because of their weight or a foot may be placed on the rear axle to assure this. As the back is lifted, the part of the arm rest forward of the hinge raises and the notches become disengaged. Still lifting up on the back, the back can be rocked to any desired position and when the. upward lift is removed, the pins will engage in the notches to which the back has been rocked.

Those acquainted with this art will readilyunderstand that this invention is not necessarily limited and restricted to the precise and exact details of construction illustrated.andidescribed. and that reasonable modifications mast be availed of without loss or sacrifice of any of the benefitsand advantages incident to the employment of the invention, as defined in theappendedclaimsi I claim:

1. In a chaise-longuehaving a main-frame, a back-frame hinged on said main-frame permitting adiustment of the inclina'tionof said'backframe, and means releasably holding said backframe in its diiferentadiusted pcsitions,said;holding means comprising the novel combination-of a pair of longitudinal arm-rest bars hinged to the rear portion of saidmain-fr'ame and extending both forwardly and rearwardly from theirhinges. and means rigidly cross-connecting said armrest bars together in spaced-apart relation, the rear parts of said arm-rest bars supporting the rear portion of said main-frame, and pin-andnotch connections between the portions of said arm-rest bars forward of their hinges and said hinged back-frame releasably locking the latter in different positions of adjustment.

2. The novel combination in the chaise-longue of claim 1, in which said arm-rest bars are curved in vertical planes for a portion of their lengths forward. of their. hinges.

31' The novel combinationtimthe chaise-longue set forth in claim 1, in which said pins are on said hinged back-frame and said cooperating WILLIAM W; JR.

REFERENCES GITED The-."fcllowing references are of.- recordin the file of this'patent:

UNITED STA'IES PATEN'IS Number Name I Date 172,281 Seng Jan. 18,.- 1876 2,301,640 Peltier Nov. 10, 1942 2,452,405 Vincent Oct. 26, 1948 

